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I've never been able to get a clean first layer with this machine. I have given it a beacon probe and it just made it much faster to get the same problem to happen again. Where am I going wrong?

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[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, makes sense based on where the sensor is, my heater didn't have a thermocouple on it so I drilled a hole for a thermistor midplate, it's super slow to respond is the downside but in theory it should be accurate enough.

I don't have experience with the bambu, in theory everything will experience thermal expansion but for the voron setup, the bimetallic construction is some of the issue, they have different thermal expansion properties so it can cause deflections. Part quality will vary wildly depending on sourcing too, vorons are very diy and open as the draw, but there's just so much variability from sourcing, mods, assembly etc.